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They crossed the Jordan and began from[a] Aroer and from the city that is in the middle of the valley, toward Gad and on to Jazer.(A)

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  1. 24.5 Gk mss: Heb encamped in Aroer south of

from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Wadi Arnon, and the town that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland from[a] Medeba as far as Dibon;(A)

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  1. 13.9 Compare Gk: Heb lacks from

36 From Aroer on the edge of the Wadi Arnon (including the town that is in the wadi itself) as far as Gilead, there was no citadel too high for us. The Lord our God gave everything to us.(A)

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16 Their territory was from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Wadi Arnon, and the town that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland by Medeba;(A)

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35 Atroth-shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,

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“Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon—

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Conquest and Division of Transjordan

32 Now the Reubenites and the Gadites owned a very great number of cattle. When they saw that the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead was a good place for cattle,(A)

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32 Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they captured its villages and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.(A)

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Her towns will be deserted forever;[a]
    they will be places for flocks,
    which will lie down, and no one will make them afraid.(A)

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  1. 17.2 Cn Compare Gk: Heb the cities of Aroer are deserted

For the fields of Heshbon languish,
    and the vines of Sibmah,
whose clusters once made drunk
    the lords of the nations,
reached to Jazer
    and strayed to the desert;
their shoots once spread abroad
    and crossed over the sea.(A)
Therefore I weep as Jazer weeps
    for the vines of Sibmah;
I drench you with my tears,
    O Heshbon and Elealeh,
for the shout over your fruit harvest
    and your grain harvest has ceased.(B)

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28 in Aroer, in Siphmoth, in Eshtemoa,(A)

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